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  • Pakistan records 4,525 new coronavirus cases, 41 deaths over past 24 hours

    Date: 2021-03-29 05:16:47 GMT - Pakistan - World - SN:1 - ID:8878062

    ISLAMABAD, March 29 (MENA) - Pakistan on Monday reported 4,525 new infections of the novel coronavirus after conducting 46,663 tests—a positivity ratio of 9.7 percent. In the 24 hours preceding 8 a.m., Monday, Pakistan’s confirmed cases climbed ....

  • Armenian opposition held rally, march to force PM to resign

    Date: 2021-03-28 21:27:19 GMT - Armenia - World - SN:96 - ID:8877970

    YEREVAN, March 28 (MENA) – Armenia’s opposition Homeland Salvation Movement held a rally and a march in central Yerevan on Sunday, a TASS reported from the site. "We will continue our protests in front of the parliament building round-the-clock. ....

  • Slovak prime minister steps down over Russian vaccine crisis

    Date: 2021-03-28 20:56:04 GMT - Slovakia - World - SN:95 - ID:8877962

    BRATISLAVA, March 28 (MENA) - Embattled Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovič announced Sunday that he would step down, in an attempt to draw a line under a month-long political crisis sparked by his unilateral purchase of the Russian-made Sputnik V ....

  • 11 killed, wounded in blasts in Afghanistan

    Date: 2021-03-28 20:51:34 GMT - Afghanistan - World - SN:94 - ID:8877954

    KABUL, March 28 (MENA) – A bomb explosion in the Afghan province of Khost killed at least eight people including five NDS force members, Khaama Press reported. Police stated that at least eight people were injured in the blast, which happened on ....

  • India’s Delhi records 1,881 coronavirus cases; death toll reaches 11,006

    Date: 2021-03-28 17:25:50 GMT - India - World - SN:77 - ID:8877618

    NEW DELHI, March 28 (MENA) – New Delhi recorded as many as 1,881 fresh coronavirus cases on Sunday in which the tally of Covid-19 cases in India’s capital reached over 657,000 while the death toll mounted to 11,006, India TV News reported. Nine ....

  • US records 62,062 new coronavirus cases: JHU

    Date: 2021-03-28 11:53:39 GMT - USA - World - SN:42 - ID:8876942

    WASHINGTON, March 28 (MENA) - The US reported 62,062 new coronavirus infections and 741 virus-related fatalities over the past 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University data released Sunday. According to JHU's tally, the nationwide totals ....

  • Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rises by over 9,000 in the past day

    Date: 2021-03-28 09:44:20 GMT - Russia - World - SN:32 - ID:8876537

    MOSCOW, March 28 (MENA) - Russia confirmed 9,088 COVID-19 cases in the past day, bringing the total case tally to 4,519,832, Tass reported on Sunday, quoting the anti-coronavirus crisis center. In relative terms, the growth rate stood at ....

  • Embassy warns Russians to avoid crowded places after blast near Indonesia’s church

    Date: 2021-03-28 08:23:04 GMT - Indonesia - World - SN:27 - ID:8876444

    MOSCOW, March 28 (MENA) - Russia’s Embassy in Indonesia urged Russian citizens to refrain from visiting crowded places after a suicide bombing near a Catholic church in Indonesia’s Makassar city, the South Sulawesi province’s capital, the Russian ....

  • Bulgaria reports 2,537 new coronavirus cases

    Date: 2021-03-28 07:47:21 GMT - Bulgaria - World - SN:25 - ID:8876404

    SOFIA, March 28 (MENA) - Some 2,537 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed during the last 24 hours in Bulgaria with 11,931 tests performed, according to the Bulgarian news agency Sofia. About 9,674 people were hospitalized, 769 of them in the ....

  • Fears of '4th wave' rise with surging rural Japan coronavirus infections

    Date: 2021-03-28 07:01:55 GMT - Japan - World - SN:19 - ID:8876355

    TOKYO, March 28 (MENA) - Drastic increases in coronavirus cases are being witnessed not just in highly populated areas like Tokyo and Osaka, but also in Japan's regional areas, in a trend prompting experts to admit concern that a "fourth wave" of ....

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